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CHARLES B. LINTON, OE BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE .UN EXCELLED FIRE WORKS COMPANY, KINGS COUNTY, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,651, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed March 3, 1886. Serial No. 193,864. (No specimens To @ZZ whom tmay concern.-

Be' it known that I, CHARLES B. LINTON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New 5 York, have invented a new Improvement in Pyroteehnic Illuminating and Display Pack ages, of which the following is a specifica-- tion.

My invention relates tothe pyrotechnic de- Io vice commonly called Bengal lire. colored iire,7 or tableau fire, but whichIcall clubre, and which, as heretofore made, consists of an illuminating composition packed either in a tin case, to be opened'to pour out the oomposition in a train on thel ground to be fired, or in a paper tube that may be lighted at one end and burns with the composition.

Shouldit be necessary to protect the com position by excluding moisture in greater degree than the fabric will for long storage, I will apply an exterior coating ot' shellac or equivalent material that will temporarily close the meshes, but will burn readily with the sack.

The textile sack' a-voids the faulty combustion common to the ordinary tin-can packages, which are dumped on the ground, so that combustion soon spreads over the wholesurface and materially excludes oxygen from the interior portions by the lava-like streams impervious to air that are melted on the upper portions and flow down over uuconsumed portions beneath, and it also avoids the faulty combustion common to the straw-board tubes, which 'are My invention consists of the illuminating \of such close texture that being burned, to-

composition contained in a sack of muslin or vro other textile fabric for the inclosing-case, said case boing tied at one end after filling, with a fuse projecting out of the tied end and eXtendi ing into the composition, and the sack being coated with shellao to rendei` the flexible pack- 25 age moisture-proof, as hereinafter described, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, `in Which Figure l is a side view of a package of my improved club-fire. Fig. 2' is a longitudinal 3o section of the same.

Instead of the tin case or paper tube, I take a muslin or other suitable text-ile sack, a, of suitable size and length, and pack the composition b in it,with a fuse, 0,' extending into the 35 composition a suitable distance, and also out .of the mouth of the sack, and I tie the sack around the fus,which projects far enough .for igniting, so as to burn the sack and composition together, thus making a package that is. 4o superior to either of the forms 110W in use, first, by the gradual supply of oxygen to the compositionthrough the meshes, or pores, so to speak, of the fabric, and, second, by the slower combustion of the interior mass ofthe The rate of combustion will be governed in considerable measure by the texture of the fabric,which may be chosen for suitability in this respect according to the desired vlength of gether with the composition, prevent access of the necessary amount of oxygen for good comf 7o bustion.

I am aware that explosive compounds have been put up in cartridges with a fuse attached to communicate fire to the explosive charge contained in the cartridge; but the'se` differ 7 5 from the kind ot' articles to which mine belong, which are for illumination, andv have to be prepared with reference to their adaptation for burning and giving light to the best advantage at a slow rate and for a length of time. 8o The packages used for explosive cartridges are chosen with reference to their capacity for retaining 'the contents till used, and for producing powerful explosions, while the object of my invention is to devise a package with special reference to the best effects in the combustion of the contents, as'before stated, and which I have produced in the textile material described, the meshes of which, when of the proper degree oftineness, supply orfeed the air, 9o so to speak,in due measure for much better combustion and illumination than when the material is discharged from the paper tubes openly upon the ground, for paper tubes or other paper packages of sufficient strength to serve for the packages will not burn uniformly'with vthe material,which, if not poured out of such packages, will not burn with sufflcientvintensity. The functionV of the shellac, which I use when the goods are liable to be kept long in damp IOC n places, is to ll and close the meshes and render the packageimpervious to the moisture of Y the atmosphere nntilburnedmhen the shellae will dissolve by the heat and open the pores 5 for the admission of the oxygee, as before. I d'o not, therefore, broadly claim a combustible packed in a sack and havinga fuse tied in the mouth of the sack; nor 'do I claim, broadly, a varnished package, but limit myself to the inro closing-sack of textile material for combusti-vVY ble material for illuminating purposes, and toV the use of the shellac on a sack of such mate-` rial for closing the meshes until required for use.

I 5 I am not aware that@I textile sack has been employed either for anexplosive or an illuminating packageg i 4 HHH WHW

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JAMEsYF. MORE, S. WM. ATWOOD. 

